How to win your pitch? Pitch with Cialdini.

How do you make sure that your pitch is effective? Make your presentations relevant to your customers. Robert Cialdini, persuasion guru has been researching persuasion since 1970. In his 2016 book Pre-suasion, he explains when to use his six universal principles of influence. But how should you apply these during your pitch?

Gary Peacock, PersuasionGary Peacock10 March 2017Persuasion, Persuading for Results, Pitching, Cialdini, InfluenceComment

How can you persuade a customer you can't afford to lose? (Part 1)

Donald Trump would probably say: Just tell em!

In the real world it's often not appropriate to just tell em! So, we need to have more sophisticated tools available.

At the end of 2016, Persuasion guru Robert Cialdini published his latest book Pre-suasion. To condense his 300 page book into two sentences he says:

What do you do before you persuade customers can have a major (hidden) influence on their decisions.
We and our customers assume that what we are focusing on is especially important.

So, what's so important about Pre-suasion?

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